[WikiEN-l] BBC blog on WSJ study

[Durova]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:46 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We know that there is enough traffic for the SEO/spammer mob to think
> > it is worth trying to get there links into the reference section of
> > wikipedia. Wikipedia's traffic is also highly targets and actually
> > buys stuff and clicks ads from time to time which makes getting some
> > of it worthwhile.
>
> Is there any data to show that people make click-thru purchases from
> Wikipedia?
>
> Yes, Bundesarchiv's online sales of high resolution digital images rose
significantly after they donated 100,000 medium resolution images to
Wikimedia Commons.  Informally, the word is that their sales approximately
doubled.

-Durova

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